Chapter 183: Retreat quietly
In the west of Yiyang City, where the Yellow Turban Army was ambushed, it was also a mess, and a large number of corpses of the Yellow Turban Army were scattered all over the mountains, but a few enemy corpses could not be found. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The commander of the Yellow Turban Army, Qu Quan Hou, was furious, and the sudden attack of the imperial army had serious consequences for him.
Not only did a large number of foot soldiers be killed and wounded, but this person was actually not particularly important to Quan Hou, and there was no shortage of these thousands of people under him! The most important thing is that all the hundreds of thousands of loads of military rations he has collected in the past few days and months have been burned by the enemy, which is the most fatal blow to him.
Without military rations, his up to 200,000 soldiers will no longer be his advantage, but will become a huge burden for him, and in less than two days, the Yellow Turban Army without military rations will definitely have a large-scale escape and rout!
There is no way to continue this battle.
Quan Hou was a little unwilling in his heart, but without food, he would not be able to capture Yiyang City no matter what. Now, he must immediately lead his troops back to the Huainan area to collect grain and grass and get supplies.
However, if he retreats now, Quan Hou knows that the imperial army will not let go of this great opportunity, and will definitely take the opportunity to attack from behind when he retreats, and the situation will be incorrigible at that time, he understands that his soldiers will not have the slightest solution once they are defeated.
Yes, there is. Quan Hou suddenly thought of a good solution, and he smiled at his subordinate generals: "These lackeys of the imperial court army will do some things like stealing chickens and touching dogs. Haha, but they never expected that I had built a place to store grain in a secret place! ”
"So, we still have food for our army?" The Yellow Turban generals around Quan Hou felt like they were in a desperate situation, and looked at Quan Hou in surprise and said.
"Enough food for a month! Don't disturb the generals! Quan Hou smiled.
"The general is really far-sighted!"
"That is, the general's wisdom and martial arts, no one in this world can match it!"
A number of Yellow Turban Army NPC generals have taken this opportunity to curry favor with the candidates.
Quan Hou nodded and interrupted them: "It's really too rampant for the imperial army to dare to sneak attack us this time! They must be taught a lesson. The order is to go down, all the troops are attacking the city wall again and again today, don't give the other party a chance to breathe! ”
"Yes!" "Yes!"
Quan Hou's words quickly spread throughout the barracks, stabilized the morale of the army, and there would be no problems in a short period of time.
And the Yellow Turban Army with a sense of revenge, launched a round of non-stop impact on Yiyang City, the frequency of attack is the two sides have never been at war since the beginning, one day, the defenders in Yiyang City did not rest for a minute, the Yellow Turban Army under the city seemed to be crazy, a Yellow Turban Army soldier fell, and immediately two more Yellow Turban soldiers rushed up, a ladder or siege vehicle was destroyed by the defenders on the city, and immediately two more ladders or siege vehicles were pushed up and continued to attack.
In this day, the number of dead and wounded of the imperial army was the number of days before.
This situation made the imperial army very surprised, logically speaking, the other party lost the battle last night, and the grain was all burned, the morale of the other party should be weakened today, why is it not weakened, but the arrogance is even more arrogant?
Pingdong General Zhou Ye saw it thoroughly, and said disdainfully: "The trapped beast is just fighting." Now that they know that they have no food, they want to end the battle as soon as possible and attack Yiyang City. ”
An NPC general asked, "Then how should we deal with it?" ”
Zhou Ye said: "Strengthen the defensive density of the city wall, we must not lose any position, as long as we hold out for three days, the Yellow Turban Army will definitely run out of food and withdraw." If we attack the rear, we will surely win a big victory! ”
The daylight passed quickly, and the sky was dark again.
According to the previous custom, the imperial army and the Yellow Turban army would withdraw their troops at this time and go back to rest.
But this time, the Yellow Turbans still did not retreat, but continued to attack the defenders of the city under the light of the fire with a torch in hand.
Lin Ran and the little white army behind him looked at the continuous Yellow Turban Army, and they were a little disgusted.
In this day's time, his hand was really numb to kill the Yellow Turban thief, not to mention that in this day's time, he killed at least 5,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers on his side, and piled up a high mountain of corpses under the city gate.
Other places are also very fierce, and some of the corpses of the Yellow Turbans piled up under the city walls are as high as six or seven meters, and they don't even need such things as ladders, the Yellow Turbans can directly use the corpses to pull out a ladder and attack the defenders in the city.
It's just that the imperial army also received a death order, and they have been fighting to the death without retreating, and the troops on both sides are rapidly depleting.
"My lord, the Yellow Turban Army has sent another 10,000 siege troops over." A scout reported to Zhou Ye.
Zhou Ye rubbed his forehead, this is the sixth reinforcement of the Yellow Turban Army today, and the troops used before and after exceeded 150,000 people, and in one day, more than 30,000 people were lost.
And the imperial army was not having a good time here, losing as many as 10,000 people!
This is the largest loss since the start of the war.
"These Yellow Turban thieves are really crazy." Zhou Ye smiled and said, "But this shows that the day of their defeat is not far away." ”
After this wave of attacks by the Yellow Turban Army, they finally had no strength to launch another attack, and slowly retreated into their own camp.
And these defenders on the city wall were also killed and wounded, and suffered heavy losses.
Zhou Ye hurriedly replaced these troops to rest and recuperate, and sent another unit in good condition to replace them.
Lin Ran was still standing on the city wall, looking into the distance, carefully observing the other party's movements.
Faintly, Lin Ran felt that the Yellow Turban Army camp opposite was a little different today, a little different from usual.
But for a while, Lin Ran couldn't remember what was the difference, so Lin Ran asked Zhu Zhi beside him: "Brother Zhu, have you noticed that the Yellow Turban Army camp opposite is different from usual?" I always felt something wasn't quite right today. ”
Zhu Zhi looked at the Yellow Turban Army camp in the distance with some strangeness, shook his head and said: "There is nothing strange about it, there are many tents in the camp, patrols and sentries are also there, and the lights are very bright!" By the way, their camp is quite noisy, and there seem to be a lot of people. ”
"It seems?" When Lin Ran heard this word, he suddenly came to his senses and said quickly to Zhu Zhi: "That's right, in the middle of the night, it's already past one o'clock in the morning, usually these Yellow Turban soldiers go to bed early, why do they light so many torches and lamps?" And in the middle of the night, except for the patrolling foot soldiers and sentries, everyone slept, how could it be so noisy? It hasn't been like this before. ”
"Xiaobai, what do you mean......" Zhu Zhi looked at Lin Ran.
"I think there's only one reason why this is happening, and that's because they want us to think they have a lot of people in the camp right now! This also means that in the other party's current camp, there may not be anyone at all except for the sentries and patrols! ”
Lin Ran's words surprised Zhu Zhi. "You mean the Yellow Turbans have retreated now?" (To be continued.) )